The Weekly Register, Volume 2H. Niles, 1812 - United States |
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Page 6 - I call upon the honour of your lordships, to reverence the dignity of your ancestors, and to maintain your own. I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country, to vindicate the national character.
Page 38 - ... justice; and others shroud yourselves beneath the mask of hypocrisy, and build your hopes of safety on the low arts of cunning, chicanery, and falsehood; yet do you not sometimes feel the gnawings of that worm which never dies? Do not the injured shades of Maverick, Gray, Caldwell, Attucks, and Carr, attend you in your solitary walks; arrest you even in the midst of your debaucheries, and fill even your dreams with terror?
Page 38 - Did not a reverence for religion sensibly decay? Did not our infants almost learn to lisp out curses before they knew their horrid import ? Did not our youth forget they were Americans, and regardless of the admonitions of the wise and aged, servilely copy from their tyrants those vices which finally must overthrow the empire of Great Britain ? And must I be compelled to acknowledge, that even the noblest, fairest part of all the lower creation, did not entirely escape the cursed snare...
Page 129 - ... that the rebels should not know that they had a man in their army who could die with so much firmness.
Page 6 - My Lords, I am old and weak, and at present unable to say more; but my feelings and indignation were too strong to have said less. I could not have slept this night in my bed, nor reposed my head on my pillow, without giving this vent to my eternal abhorrence of such preposterous and enormous principles.
Page 96 - Congress concerning the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France and their dependencies...
Page 19 - Great Britain, and in the midst of amicable professions and negotiations on the part of the British Government, through its public Minister here, a secret agent of that Government was...
Page 66 - Famine seems to be the last, the most dreadful resource of nature. The power of population is so superior to the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.
Page 19 - Massachusetts, in fomenting disaffection to the constituted authorities of the nation, and in intrigues with the disaffected, for the purpose of bringing about resistance to the laws, and, eventually, in concert with a British force, of destroying the union and forming the eastern part thereof into a political connection with Great Britain.
Page 40 - I fear it would take up too much of your time, should I attempt to call over the illustrious roll. But your grateful hearts will point you to the men ; and their revered names, in all succeeding times, shall grace the annals of America. From them, let us. my friends, take example ; from them, let us catch the divine enthusiasm ; and feel, each for himself, the godlike pleasure of diffusing happiness on all around us ; of delivering the oppressed from the iron grasp of tyranny ; of changing the hoarse...